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President Donald Trump gifted Elon Musk a key to the White House for leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during his send-off press conference in the Oval Office on Friday. Friday marks the end of Musk’s special government employee tenure, which is capped at 130 days. Trump lauded Musk for the work that DOGE has done in exposing waste, fraud, and abuse. “Today, it’s about a man named Elon, and he’s one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation,...

Mexico will no longer deny Texas farmers the lifeblood of their business, according to the Trump administration. Under a 1944 treaty, Mexico is obligated to send Texas water from the Rio Grande while the U.S. sends Mexico water from the Colorado River. The current five-year deal calls for about 490 billion gallons from the U.S. to flow to Mexico each year, while 570 billion gallons from Mexico is to head north, according to CNN. Because Mexico has been far behind in its obligations, the State Department denied a request for water for Tijuana, marking the first U.S. denial since the...

In a major leap toward the development of a global quantum internet, researchers have successfully demonstrated real-time quantum key distribution (QKD) between a microsatellite and multiple mobile ground stations. The breakthrough, achieved with Jinan-1, the world’s first quantum microsatellite, was led by a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in collaboration with the Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. The findings were recently published in Nature. By enabling highly secure, unbreakable encryption, quantum communication is seen as the future...

You’ve been crushing your health and fitness goals recently: Eating protein at every meal, getting seven to nine hours of sleep, and hitting the heavy weights at the gym. But in the past few days, you’re feeling sluggish. Why can’t I lift as heavy as usual? I’m doing everything right. Well, there’s actually a chance you’re doing too much—and that’s where a deload week comes in. A deload week is “a period of time where you reduce the volume in your workout,” says Almoni Ellis, CPT, a NASM-certified personal trainer. You either take a break from the gym completely, lighten...

Republicans have taken the lead in two of the most consequential U.S. House races in the country, which will have large roles in deciding which party takes control of the 119th House of Representatives. An internal poll for California Republican Scott Baugh, conducted by WPA Intelligence October 17-18, finds him leading Democrat Dave Min in California’s 47th Congressional District, a seat currently occupied by Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA). Baugh has 43 percent support to Min’s 40 percent, with an advantage among independent voters, Hispanic voters, and white voters. Min has slid five points since a September WPA Intelligence poll, while...

Eight out of ten key measures in the 2024 presidential election cycle favor Republicans, Gallup polling found Monday. The finding suggests Republicans have a significant chance of holding the House and retaking the Senate, along with the White House. Gallup measured and weighed 10 aspects of the election environment with eight of ten favoring Republicans. Two of the ten measurements that Gallup weighted as “strong” both leaned toward Republicans. None favored or leaned toward Democrats, and two favored neither party. Gallup weighed the measurements that favored neither party as only “weak” and “moderate.”

KARMA IS A BITCH!........But a lovely one........................

Zach presents a good summary of some unanswered questions and anomalies surrounding the Baltimore bridge collapse. The video runs just over 27 minutes long.

Can a Civil Engineer weigh in on this?

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland which crosses the Patapsco River has reportedly Collapsed within the last few minutes after being Struck by a Large Container Ship

The ghost of Ronald Reagan seems to be haunting — or at least consulting — Joe Biden’s White House. The administration’s recent embrace of the term “Bidenomics,” which echoes “Reaganomics,” seeks to turn a less-than-complimentary jab from the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times into a positive talking point about Biden’s economic accomplishments. Just before Biden delivered a major economic speech in Chicago last month, his press office announced that Bidenomics is “the word of the day, word of the week, word of the month, word of the year.” As a strategic move, however, this particular presidential coinage might not...

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who served as the lead Republican negotiator on a previous attempt at an infrastructure package, on Monday praised the newly unveiled bipartisan deal as a major step in the right direction, signaling she is likely to support final passage of the legislation. Capito didn’t explicitly say how she would vote on final passage but she touted the $1.2 trillion bill, which includes a lot of legislation produced by her committee, as having huge benefits for her home state of West Virginia and the rest of the nation. “This is a product the American people can...

Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, says that hydroxychloroquine is “the key to defeating COVID-19” in a Newsweek op-ed published this past week. “I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines,” Risch wrote. “As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying...

A Stuart man is behind bars, accused of threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Brian Mast’s children in response to current immigration policies. Mast has three young children. Laurence Wayne Key is facing federal charges under the offense of "communication of a threat to kidnap or injure a person." Key’s social media pages show he is very politically active. He volunteers regularly for the Democratic Party of Martin County and has volunteered many hours for Planned Parenthood, according to a friend of Key’s.

Francis Scott Key, the pro-slavery lawyer and amateur poet who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry 200 years ago, was famously inspired by the resilient spirit of a young nation. Forty-five years later, Key’s other notable creation, his only son Philip Barton Key II, would experience an entirely different side of American life when he was slain in 1859 by a U.S. congressman and disgruntled cuckold named Daniel Sickles.

Are Fox News host Sean Hannity and WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange up to something? On October 8th, Hannity tweeted his famous “Tick Tock,” warning — but this time — with a twist, including a 7 day countdown. One week later, Assange followed up with his own cryptic tweet.

It was a memorable moment in Pixar’s 2004 classic “The Incredibles,” one that seemed wildly futuristic at the time: Mr. Incredible picks up a wafer-thin tablet computer, and it scans his face to verify his identity before divulging his secret mission. Thirteen years later, many slim phones and tablets unlock with the press of a thumb—and just this sort of mobile facial scanning is on the way. Forget fiddling with passwords or even fingerprints; forget multiple layers of sign-in; forget credit cards and, eventually, even physical keys to our homes and cars. A handful of laptops and mobile devices can...

John Key has announced that he will resign as prime minister of New Zealand, after eight years in the job. Mr Key called it "the hardest decision I've ever made," adding "I don't know what I'll do next."

Monday on his national syndicated radio show, while discussing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem at a preseason football game and having said of the gesture, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” host Mark Levin reacted by saying he didn’t want Kaepernick to stand and described him as “an insignificant fly.”

Roger Bowley, a physics professor at the University of Nottingham, explains why holding a key fob next to your brain can help extend its signal. He also demonstrates the same effect using a bottle of water, which comes in handy when trying to unlock a car.